TUB KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1917. GET THE HABIT EL'TE SHINING PARLOR 2407Vi Vine Street Agent for Colored Weeklies We Clean and Dye Shoes of All Kinds. Work Guaranteed. HENDERSON & NEAL, Props. MME A. MOORE Testier of Piano and Voice 1619 Cottage Service g Satisfaction are what you get when you patronize C. A. FRANKLIN THE PRINTER 1309 East 18th St Bell Phone Grand 2988 Coal and Feed Don't wait Orderyour Coal now. Full,Weight Quick Delivery. PAYNE GOAL CO. 1902 Vine St. Phones. Home East 4132 Bell East 559 Vaughans Values IDLEWILD1 1 Michigan THE UNPARALLELED HEALTH RESORT FOR THE RACE. 11,000 lots, surrounding a lake two miles long, half mile wide, in which is an island park of 8 acres, with an excellent club house. Streets and boulevards all laid out. Pere Mar quette Railroad right through the town. Has a tent city. Buy your family a rest home, in a resort that is being bought up by the best people throughout the country. Many cottages already built by both men...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 29, 1917, THE K ANS ASC1TYSUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY All communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Bun, 1803 But ma Street. Bell Phone East 999. Entered aa second-class matter, August , 1903, at the postofflce at Kansas City, Mo., under the act ot March 3. 1879. Nelson C, Crews Editor and Owner Willa M. Glenn General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year 1-S Biz Month J5 Three Months 60 ADVERTISING RATES, J2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. Betty vS Little Coxanke-D EDITORIALS. Victory. Every right cause eventually triumphs. Thanks to the noblo hearted men and women, white and colored In this city, the Hospital Campaign has been won. Look at the $1.00 list In the Wheat-ley-Provldent Hospital Campaign. Look, just look. Among the men lost on the Destroy er, Jacob Jones', was Wallace Simpson, who enlisted In the Navy about ten years ago. Whenever history Is to be made for the United States, a Negro is always t...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1917. V A mi j Miss Marianas Family i ;j By Hilda Morris IP $. 4 m '$ (Copyright! ii'lY, "by the' McCluro Newspa per Syndicate.) ! Miss Mariana Winn's old house fronted on Shannon Square. Slinunon Square was not large. It wns one o those blessed bits of green that offer playgrounds for children, shade on hot days, and sunny benches on the crisp, cool afternoons that come In the late September. There were always plenty of people tn Shannon Square, for below It was a poorer section of the city, crowded with children. The children sought the park as ducks seek water, and old er people followed big sisters to look nfter the children, old men who liked to sit and watch life go past, and some times young people who anxiously ficnnned the "Help Wunted" columns tn the papers. Miss Mariana liked to open the long white shutters at her front window nnd watch the people In the Square She had no veranda, and the little park was her front ynrd. She love...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1917. MmnoNAL WhdJt Viell Dress StDifSfflOO 4 A 7 IT 1 ' Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of tho Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright, 1917, Wetern Newspaper Union.) libmeri Will we& IN .Ok IN B lour Neip America is going to save thousands of French and Beigian women and children from death by starvation or freezing this winter, but every American must lend a hand to the work kROM "Everywhere in France" there lire Being brought to the uniteu amies with the arrival of nearly every pas senger ship tales of devastation and misery which arc even more tingle . than the cabled dispatches which wo are accustomed to read under the vague dute line, "Somewhere In France." Many of these narratives have been brought by men and women who, under the aus pices of the American lied Cross, have been Inves tigating conditions created by the Invasion of the Hun. The range of vision of these Investigators extend...

94.45 What can I do for the Colored Soldiers? Why tend them the Sun Its better than a letter from home Bell Phone East 999 HaveYouGotRooms,Hou8 es or Flats Furnifhed or unfurnished ForRent? Advertise Them in the Sun VOLUME X. NUMBER 19. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918. PRICE, oc. Really Hospital f77 Q es mnn Our Special Rate of A GRAND RECITAL. Unquostonably the most delightful recital of the season was that given by Rev. and Mrs. T. IT. Wiseman of Oklahoma City, Okla, at Allen Chapel Thursday evening. They were ably assisted by local talent and the elite of tho city -were In attendance. Dr. Wiseman was especially pleas ing In his rendition of "Tho Torrea dor's Love Song" and Burleigh "Jean" whilo Mrs. Wiseman's reading of "Leah the Forsaken" was simply sup erb. Their closing number was a stirring duet ontltled "Keop tho Homo Fire Burning" and stirred to a remark able demonstration tho largo audl enco present. Tho Douglass Hospital Committee Is to be congratulated I...

THE KANSAS ClTY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1318. GET THE HABIT ELITE SHINING PARLOR 2407J4 Vine Street Agent fop Colored Weekll We Clean and Dye Shoes of All Kinds. Work Guaranteed. HENDERSON & NEAL, Props MME A. MOORE Teacher of Piano and Voice 1619 Cottage Service g Satisfaction are what you get when you patronize C. A. FRANKLIN THE PRINTER 1309 East 18th St Bell Phone Grand 2988 Coal and Feed Don't wait Orderyour Coal now. Full .Weight Quick Delivery. PAYNE COAL CO. 1902 Vine St. Phones, Home East 1132 Bell East 559 Vaughan's Values IDLEWILD! ! Michigan THE UNPARALLELED HEALTH RESORT FOR THE RACE. 11,000 lots, surrounding a lake two miles long, half mile wide, In which Is an island park of 8 acres, with an excellent club house. Streets and boulevards all laid out. Pere Mar quette Railroad right through the town. Has a tent city. Buy your family a rest home, In a resort that Is being bought up by the best people throughout the country. Many cottages already built by both men an...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY,, JANUARY 5, 1918. I!" I! THEKANSASC1TYSUN . PUBLISHED WEEKLY All communications should be addressed to Tho Kansas City Sun, 1803 feast 18tB street. Bell Phone East 899. Bell Phone East 2789 Entered aa second-class matter, August , ivus, at tne postornce at .Kansas uiiy, Uo., under the act of March 3, 1879. Nelson C Crews Editor and Owner Wllla M. Glenn General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year J2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 60 Canada and Foreign Countries fl.OO aa dltional. ADVERTISING RATES, J2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PREGS ASSOCIATION. Nelson Curry, a prophet who lives beyond Leeds, says that the war will end February 1 and that there will be no more winter after that day. Well we hope Brother Curry has got the "right hunch." Since through the virtuous Ideals of race satisfaction tho Negro no longer affords an excuse for the spectral dread of the "social equality'' spook, the fear of civic equality is rising to take Its pl...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918. Have you ever tried the Spotless Kitchen, 23 West 13th street, tho best placso la town to cat? Miss Edors Thomas Is confined to her homo, 3412 E. 21st street, on ac count of Illness. Mrs. McElhaney will be glad to see her friends at 2802 E. 55th street, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wad-ley. 'Mrs. A. Dickens returned from Mo berly, Mo where she visited friends during the holidays. Mrs. Fannie Davis of Moberly, Mo., attended the funeral of Mr. Allen of this city. Mr. John Denny of Omaha, Neb., af ter spending the holidays with rela tives at Chllllcothe, Mo., visited friends in this city en route home. Prof. C. A. Guillot, teacher of French at Howard University, was the guest of Miss Effie Fennlston dur ing the holidays. Wo are glad to say that Mr. H. F. Floyd is able to bo out again after flvo weeks' illness. CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. J. Dallas Bowser, who, since the middle of October, has been con fined to her home, desires to thank th...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918. mwm 0STAL SERVICE IS BETTER The KITCHEN mprovement Throughout the Country In Conduct of Business Is Noted by the Department Officlnls of the post office depart i, a j -, Officials Have a Word to Say About Knitting WASHINGTON. Girls! Drop n stitch nnd think n bit I Yes, of course nil America Is knitting, but Is knitting the best thins you can do for your country In the prosecution of this great world war? Knitting Is just as popular In the war capital as It Is anywhere ing out an urgent uppenl for clerical help In the departments. Knitting has almost disrupted the efficiency of some of the government departments. Mllltnry and naval officlnls do not look upon the knitting with entire upprovnl. Secretary of War Baker has taken occasion to make deferen tial remurks about the practice In public. It Is claimed here that the percent age of sweaters and wristlets which reach the boys In active service Is small. Either this Is because the knitt...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918. Miss Doane's Mealer 8' ! I i:S' is m I! By J. L. Harbour :: '1 51 'I it 1 : (Copyright, 1817, Wcitern Newapaper Union.). Mrs. Somlra Doano was out In her front yard counting her Shirley pop ples and admiring their almost In finite variety. "No two of them seem to bo exactly the same tint, and I never had such n lot of them out at ono time before," Eald Miss Semlrn. , She loved flowero and nearly every foot of her small front yard was laid out In beds and mounds. There was not a weed to bo seen, and her plants looked thrifty and bore evidence of care. Tho little white house back of the flower garden had plants In the two front windows, nnd climbing vines completely covered the small, green lattice-work porch over the front door. All of the flowers and plants were of the old-fashioned varieties. Miss Semira did not care for floral "novelties." She liked her four-o'clocks nnd ragged robins and lndy-In-thc-green and bleeding hearts, better...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918. THE HONOR ROLL A Complete List of Subscribers to the Wbeatley-Provident Hospital Fund for the Pur pose of Purchasing a Hospi tal Building ALL HONOR TO Prominent White People Contributed Liberally Toward This Much Needed Institution and the Colored People Responded Nobly. IS YOUR NAME MISSING? The campaign for the new Wheat- ley-Provident Hospital has been fought and gloriously won and the race has a right to congratulate Itself upon the earnestness and unanimity with which they worked to achieve the desired results. Physicians and laymen vied with each other in rolling up the largest amount for the Institution and the honor of soliciting the largest sum goes to the team captained by Dr. Wm. J. Thompkins with $3,839.10 to Its credit; while the team of Dr. G. W. I Brown was a closo second with teer but loyal workers and the splen $3,241.50; the team of Dr. E. A. Wal-ldld result attest their wisdom as well Iter with only a few workers mad...

What can I dn for the Colored Soldiers? Why send them the Sun Its better than a letter from home Bell Phone East'999 mmx HaveYouGotRooms,Hou3 es or Flats Furnirhed or unfurnished ForRent? Advertise Them in the Sun VOUJME X. NUMBER 20. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918. PRICE, 5c. Our Special Rate of $f.OO Expires January 31st YES, INDEED, WE ARE GOING TO RUN MR. WINSTON HOLMES FOR ALDERMAN IN THE TENTH WARD. TO THE REGISTERED VOTERS OF THE TENTH WARD, READ THIS ARTICLE. We Imploringly Ask Your Helpl It Is a Step Toward a Greater Man hood The Birth of An- other Age. The Colored voter of tho Tenth Ward will have a chance to show their loyalty' to their race this Spring, a treat that all of us cannot have. How often have you had tho privilege of voting for a member of the race? Do you think that a white man, no matter of what political party, can truly and honestly represent a race who he con siders Inferior without ' forcing them to take the place of inferiority in the...

TIIE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918. A Bird in the Hand (Special Information Service, U. 8, Department of Agriculture.) EGGS AND MEAT FROM CITY BACKYARDS Cupid Kept Busy During Week-Ends at the Capital 2b Actually, Dear Reader, Here Is a New "Con" Game KANSAS CITY. The car was not so crowded as usual when the credulous looking man boarded It, there being seat room for one more person. The vacant spot was next to a window, and the way to It was blocked by a square- off. Take that couple across the aisle, for Instance. I'll bet you n quarter they get off at Twenty-eighth. I'll risk a quarter on It. Are you on?" They shook hands. The car passed Twenty sevenfh street and the couple opposite made no move toward getting off. The mysterious man drew a quarter from a pocket. ; "Guess I lose," he sold, "But It never happened before." Just then the man opposite leaned past the woman beside him and pressed the buzzer. The car slowed 'down for Twenty-eighth and they roso to leave I...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918. TI1EKANSASC1TYSUN PUBLISHED WEEKLY AH communications should be addressed to The Kansas City Sun, 1803 Hast 18th Btreet. Bell Phone East 999. Bell Phone East 2789 Entered as second-class matter, August , 1903, at the postofflce at Kansas City, Mo., under the act of March 3. 1879. Nelson C. Crews Editor and Owner Wllla M. Glenn General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ono Year $2-00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 60 Canada and Forelen Countries 11.00 ad ditional ADVERTISING RATES. $2.00 PER INCH PER MONTH. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. First payments to the Wheatley Provident Hospital fund are due Jan uary 15. OUR RATE, AFTER JANUARY 31, IS $2.00 PTR YEAR. Well, tho other five soldiers of the Twenty-fourth condemned to be hang ed have not been hanged yet. Well, let's hope. Those Negroes wno receive a news paper for a whole year and then re fuse to pay for it are unspeakable skunks, unworthy of the respect of anyone. Prominent Negroe...

if THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918. tfV in 8 . CITY NEWS Mr. Amos ltandall of 241G Mntgall avcnuo continues quite 111. Miss Iula J. Sweatman continues ill from blood poison, caused by vaccina tion. Mrs. Robert Simpson, 1922 Wood land avenue, has been indisposed dur ing tho week. Miss Ida Porter and sister were called to Paris, Mo., on account ot the death of their brother, Roy Porter. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Whitaker, 2440 Michigan avenue, aro tho proud par ents of a baby girl born January 2. Mr. William Harris, brother of Mr. Charles Harris, 2C2i Euclid ave nue, is confined to his bed on account of pneumonia. James Anderson of Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, will arrivo in the city Saturday to visit his family on a five day furjough. Mrs. E. C. Bunch has just returned from St. Joseph, Mo., where she was called on account of the serious ill ness of her sister. Miss Erma Frazier, a sophomore at the Kansas University, spent the holi days with Mr.,and Mrs. Roland Smith, '422 M...

THE KANSAS CITY SUN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918. fcr I rue Blue ' Si 'I ' ft By R. Knon (Copyright, 1917, Weitern Newspaper Union.) "What a line sunset!" Harry Still well pointed 'to tlie red and orange western sky. Ills companion sighed, but said nothing, as with his back to tho window ho was carefully putting nway his engraver's tools. "Poor fellow, I forgot he's color blind," Harry muttered, then contin ued louder: "Cut, say, Ed, don't you see any of the colors out there?" Edward Dalton shook his head. "Life Is to me one long gray day. Of course, I don't know Just how you normal-eyed people see things. I distin guish what you call blue, such as the sky on a clear sunny day, and flowers like the violet and bluebell, and I niso perceive what you call yellow. But all the other colors you speak of are to me only so many variations of gray, more or less luminous. What you call color, I call degrees of light and Bhade." "And there you have the Immense advantage over us In our professio...